Runner Quotes

“I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.”

“And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.”

“In war there is no prize for runner-up.”

“Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.”

“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

“Runner up is champion of the losers.”

“I'd rather be the last runner who saw a cool thing that everyone else missed, than to be a speedy runner who had a miserable experience.”

“Runners don't quit. We fade; we "hit the wall"; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.”

“As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.”